Druhan v. Adam

Adam leased to Druhan, a feed merchant, a two story brick house belonging to the former. The lessee made use of the building leased, for storing grain. He had thus occupied the store for many years, when, on the night of the 3d of December, 1851, a portion of the joists which supported the floor of the second story, gave way in the centre, precipitating to the ground about nine hundred and fifty sacks of oats, weighing sixty-three to sixty-five pounds each, which (in addition to twelve or thirteen hundred more,) wore stored in the second story, and carrying away a portion of the back wall of…